Nikoleta Đukanović is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanistic studies, University of Donja Gorica, where she teaches in the Department of International Organizations and Foreign Policy. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade, in the field of international and European studies. She completed postgraduate studies in European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Podgorica and a Master’s degree in Adriatic Region and Local Development at the University of Bologna as a CEI scholarship recipient. She was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research for a research stay at the Institute of European Law at the University of Graz, as well as a DAAD scholarship for a research stay at Humboldt University of Berlin. She graduated in Diplomacy and International Relations from the Faculty of Political Science in Podgorica in 2007. She also completed specialist studies in diplomacy at the same faculty, a programme in American political and economic systems at Charles University in Prague, and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Since September 2019, she has been a researcher at the Sociological Centre of Montenegro. Since 2020, she has periodically worked as a national consultant for UNDP, the Council of Europe and the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC). She heads the Office for Gender Equality at the University of Donja Gorica. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Committee for Political Science and Sociology of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and an associate member of the Parliament of Montenegro’s Committee on Comprehensive Electoral Reform. She has extensive experience in implementing national and European research projects in the fields of European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
